Bonnie Garmus Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with - of a...
March 2nd 2023
Christie J. Newport Meet Detective Beth Fellows in this brand-new mystery from Joffe Books Prize winner Christie J. Newport, that will have you gripped from the start till the explosive finish. Detective Chief Inspector Beth Fellows is thrown into the biggest case of her career: the brutal murder of Rose Danes. She quickly realizes Rose's murder is linked to a cold case she investigate...
February 2nd 2023
Bob Mortimer My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To describe me as anonymous would be unfair but to notice me other than in passing would be a rarity. I did make a good connection with a girl, but that blew up in my face and smacked my arse with a fish slice. Gary Thorn goes for a pint with a work acquaintance called B...
January 11th 2023
Bob Mortimer Bob Mortimer's life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a heart condition that required immediate surgery and forced him to cancel an upcoming tour. The episode unnerved him, but forced him to reflect on his life so far. This is the framework for his hilarious and moving memoir, And Away… Although his childhood in Middlesbr...
January 9th 2023
By Kiley Dunbar With just two weeks until Christmas, everything in Clove Lore should be perfect. But the latest holidaymaker to the Borrow a Bookshop is feeling far from festive… Icelandic ex-bookseller Magnús Sturluson might be surrounded by love stories in the Bookshop, but he's nursing a sadness that not even fiction can fix. When Alexandra Robinson finds hersel...
December 2nd 2022
By Christine Leech & Emma Friedlander-Collins Celebrate Christmas the zero-waste way with these crafty solutions for everything from Christmas tree decorations to advent calendars. The zero-waste movement is huge and this collection of crafty ideas will help you to create your own zero waste solutions for a sustainable Christmas. It's time to reclaim Christmas - this collec...
December 2nd 2022
By Kate Atkinson Three short but exquisitely formed tales with a yuletide theme from the pen of the mercurial Kate Atkinson, Festive Spirits is a diverse and winning collection. Easily digestible in one sitting, this volume makes the perfect pick-me-up for the whirlwind festive season. Click here to check current stock Comments from Other Readers No one h...
December 2nd 2022
By Michael Rosen In March 2020, Michael Rosen became unwell. Soon he was struggling to breathe, and he was admitted to hospital with coronavirus. What followed was months on the wards: a month in an induced coma, and weeks of rehab and recovery as the NHS saved his life, and then got him back on his feet. Throughout it all, a diary was kept at the end of Michael's bed, where his nurses wrote ...
November 3rd 2022
By Kayode Akinropo In a chain of events, Omoye is married off at an early age, her much-loved brother dies suddenly, her four children are left ‘motherless’. Tayo, the only boy among four, is at the centre of a bitter dispute between his grandparents and his father over his primary school education. His sisters are even less fortunate, their potential for getting any education dism...
November 3rd 2022
“Characters can be quite overpowering, can’t they,” she said. “I can vouch for that, myself, because Professor Soames can certainly be very demanding around the guest house. Fold the sheets, this way. Make my coffee, that way. Anyone would think he was the Queen of Sheba.” When a cantankerous old woman dies at her home in the sleepy, picturesque village of Bamburgh, DCI Ryan...
July 29th 2022
